Improvement in cotton-hillers



2 Sheets-Sheet 1. A. W. WASHBURN.

Shovel Plow;

I Patented Mar. 25, 1856.

A. w. WASHBURNQ Shove] Plow.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

Patented Mar 25, 1856.

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MFETERS, PHOTO LITHOGRAPNER UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-HILLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 14,539, dated March 25, 1856.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. W. WAsHBURN, of Yazoo City, in the county Yazoo and State of Mississippi, have invented anew and Improved Cotton-Hiller; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification- Figure 1 being a top view; Fig. 2, a bottom view; Fig. 3, a longitudinal vertical section in the line .00 x of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a transverse section in the line 3 3; of Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 afront View of the machine.

Similar letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

The oblong frame of my improved cottonhiller may be constructed of any suitable materials properly united together. The said frame is supported upon the forward pair of bevel-wheels A A and the after pair of plain broad-faced wheels B B.

A central longitudinal beam, G, of the rearwardly-flaring shape, represented in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, is framed into the front A and rear end pieces of the machine. A transverse beam,F, is halved into the said beam G, near the center of its length, and the ends of said transverse beam are framed into the sides of the machine.

Adjustable lifting-up plates 0 c descend from the forward portion of the beam G, whose pointed forward ends must be of such a shape, respectively,that when they are adjusted to the proper posit-ions relatively to the bevel-faces of the wheels A A they will pick up and gather in that portion of the cotton-plants that may have fallen outward and retain them in a standing position until they are supported by the earth thrown up by the billing-plows cc of the machine, which follow immediately after. The said lifting-up plates 0 e are secured to the sides of the beam G by means of the slotted shanksjj and the set screws z z' or by any other suitable means which will admit of proper adjustment of the positions of said plates. I

Immediately in the rear of the lifting-up plates 6 e the adjustable regulating-plates d d descend vertically from the sides of the beam G, the said plates (1 at being secured to the sides of the beam G by means of the slotted shanks kk k and the set-screws Z Z Z; or the said plates may be secured to the beam G in any other suitable manner.

The hilling-plows 0 care secured to the trans- 1 verse beam F by means of the set-screws h h, which pass through vertical slots in the shanks of the plows and through horizontal slots in said beam; or said plows may be combined with the machine in any other manner that will admit of their being adjusted to any desired position.

The object of the regulating-plates dd is to gage the height of the hills formed about the cotton-plants. The earth thrown inward by the plows it will be perceived, has to pass under the said plates (1 d; consequently by elevating or depressing said plates the quantity of earth to be thrown up around the cottonplants can be perfectly regulated and controlled. Any surplus earth that maybe turned up by the plows against the sides of the plates (1 (I will be thrown back into the space between the rows of plants by the outwardlycurving rear ends ofsaid plates.

I shall generally combine the bevel-wheels readily appreciated by all who are famliar with this subject.

In place of the lifting-up plates 6 c, it will I readily be perceived that rods may be comthey will produce the same effect upon the outwardly-reclining cotton-plants as the saidlifting-up plates.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lifting-up plates 0 e of my improved cotton-hiller or their equivalent-s when arranged and operating in conjunction with the governing-plates (Z d and the billing-plows c 0, substantially in the manner, and for the purpose herein set forth.

A. \V. WASHBURN. Witnesses:

Z. O. ROBBINS, THOMAS W. LAY.

A A with the forward axle in such a manner ing-up plates of my improved cotton-hiller is bined with my improved cotton-hiller, and be given such ashape at their forward ends that 

